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Superior students offer designs for town flag

Youth Leadership Council will present design to Trustees Monday

By Whitney Bryen

Staff Writer

Posted:
01/06/2016 09:06:23 PM MST

Updated:
01/07/2016 12:50:12 PM MST

Monarch sophomore Abby Adams holds a rough sketch that she hopes will inspire Superior's municipal flag. Abby, along with other members of the Superior Youth Leadership Council, will present the sketch design to Trustees Monday for adoption. (Whitney Bryen / Daily Camera)

Abby Adams' sketch of what she hopes will be the new flag of Superior. (Whitney Bryen / Daily Camera)

Superior could become the second Boulder County municipality to adopt a flag inspired by the efforts of local students.

On Wednesday, the Superior Youth Leadership Council unanimously approved Abby Adams' design, which reads "The Town of Superior" and incorporates the tree and curved lines from the town logo in the town colors, maroon and white.

Abby, a sophomore at Monarch High School, doesn't consider herself an artist saying that the design "just came to me."

"I was just looking at the logo and the tree looked like an 'I' next to the circle that looked like an 'O' so I just thought it would be cool to use it as a letter in Superior," Abby,15, said.

The town's marketing team is creating a digital version of the design, which Abby sketched in pen on a plain sheet of white paper, for the group to present to the Board of Trustees for adoption during its Monday meeting.

Monarch junior Allie Reuter, who chairs the council, said the design represents the town while incorporating the group's creativity.

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Allie's brother Connor, a Monarch freshman, said the group worked well together using flags from neighboring municipalities as a template and adding personal touches.

Nearly 20 middle and high school students submitted designs.

"I feel like this is very personal for them," the group's liaison, Trustee Elia Gourgouris, said. "Years from now they can look back and say we're the group who designed this flag. They're kind of creating their legacy in some ways."

Like most municipalities in Boulder County, Superior doesn't have a flag.

Representatives in Erie, Lafayette and Louisville confirmed the municipalities do not have flags.

Once a design is adopted by Trustees, Gourgouris said he hopes the Superior flag will be seen in several locations around town including Town Hall and on Main Street in the central plaza that is part of the Town Center development design.

"We'll have a Main Street, like Pearl Street in Boulder," Gourgouris said. "Thousands of families will come and gather there and they'll see the flag, a symbol of our town and our youth."

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